RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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sum of $9,900. Dr. Corner's activities are concentrated
on a study of the oestrus cycle, using
monkeys as the experimental animals. A colony
of about thirty monkeys has been maintained,
and experiments have furnished information on.
the normal histology of the reproductive cycle,
the time of ovulation, the relation of ovulation to
menstruation and other anatomically detectable
correlations of the oestrus cycle. Work is continuing
on two main lines: normal sex reproduction
in the monkey, including the histology of ovary
and uterus, and, secondly, the effects of the
ovarian hormone.
Connecticut College for Women
Research in Plant Hormones
The sum of $10,000 was appropriated to the
Connecticut College for Women, New London,
Connecticut, toward the cost of building a research
greenhouse and dark constant temperature
and humidity rooms for research in plant
hormones. This equipment will make possible cooperative
researches of which the aim is to study
the functions of plant growth hormones affecting
increase in tissue and organ size through cell
division or cell enlargement, as well as plant hormone
production and the distribution and activity
of growth hormone as affected by various
electrical potentials and conditions of radiation.
The initial effort will be focused on the cell divi-
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